Adrift
| Title: | Adrift |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Directors: | Christian Duguay |
| Writers: | Graham Flashner (writer) Ed Gernon (writer) |
| Actors: | Kate Jackson | Kenneth Welsh | Bruce Greenwood | Kelly Rowan | Elizabeth Hawthorne | Blue André | Amber-Jane Raab | Bruce Allpress | Jeff Boyd | Jonathan Goodwill |
| Rating: | 4.9 | 151 votes |
| Languages: | English |
| Color: | Color |
| Country: | Canada | NewZealand |
| Company: | Atlantis Films Limited |
| Genres: | Thriller |
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| 1) Katie and Guy take a sea cruise in their sailboat and discover a couple on a wrecked boat, victims of a brutal attack by their crew. They take Eliza and Nick on board. The new boarders appear nervous about returning to Honolulu, and when the boat’s engines die and other little incidents occur, Katie and Guy start wondering whether the shipwrecked couple are what they appear to be.
2) A middle aged couple go sailing in the Pacific in an attempt to save their marriage. They come across a motionless boat which has a starving man and woman aboard. They have no option but to let them board their own sailboat unaware that they happen to be rather dangerous. |
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| Comments: | |
| 1) Barely anything to say on this one. Couple get taken hostage by othercouple on boat.
About 30 occasions along the way where they could've or should haveescaped But they never managed it. In the end they way they do is pretty tame, so much so you expect thekidnappers to still be alive when the credits roll. It's a job to stretch this out to 10 lines. I suppose the lack of a 'finale' made it slightly more true to life andI made it through to the end. 4/10 2) Adrift really ought to sail away and never return. When I first watchedthis a few years ago now, I thought to myself how can a well knownHollywood actress like Kate Jackson even contemplate accepting a rolein such drivel? The suspense IS there in Adrift, and we can certainlybelieve that we do not know what is going to happen, no matter how hardwe try and guess, but the cheap and 'cheerful' image Adrift gives outlets the side down. This film is basically a low budgeted version ofthe 1988 thriller Dead Calm, but the sense of loneliness and eerinessin that film never materialises in Adrift, and viewers will alwaysrealise the limit in budget and the weak unpretentious script. 3) This is actually an okay little thriller very much in a Dead Calm vein.There’s some needless sub-plot about extra-marital affairs at the start butonce the action starts its pretty good. An above average TV Movie with only a few "Thats just stupid – no-one woulddo that moments". The craziest being whenone of the good-guys is trying to quietly escape but takes time-out on theway to noisily trash the villian’s room thus putting the kibosh on the wholething. These things withstanding its worth 90 minutes or so of yourtime. 4) This is the best comedy I’ve ever seen! Two badly acted psychos terrorisetwo badly acted partners on a badly acted boat! Okay I think I’veoverkilledit a bit now. Sorry. Anyway, I couldn’t catch the plot ’cause I waslaughingso hard. Actually, I told you it earlier. This is definitely a bad movie,not even so bad it’s good, it’s just, well, bad!Rating: 1/5 |
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